Bangsamoro

Bangsamoro is an autonomous region of the southern Philippines located in Mindanao and Sulu. President Benigno Aquino III agreed to grant the Moros their own autonomous region to end a 17-year peace process with separatist Moro groups, and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front formed the United Bangsamoro Justice Party as a political party in May 2015. The region was a home to the Muslim Moros, which allowed for some separatist groups to lay down their arms; however, some Islamist groups such as the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters wanted to take over the rest of the island.